<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Update:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>On Black Friday I found a Dell Inspirion 660 tower with an i5-3340 and 8GB of RAM. I ordered it. I cancelled the HP laptop. After reading all your feedback, I'm sure I avoided a lot of hassle.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Thank you to everyone who responded!!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span></span></div><div> </div><div>------------------------<br>Keith Smith</div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div
style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Saturday, November 30, 2013 3:46 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8813521167"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">While doing some research on HP and Linux I cam across a post that said the person was having problems and they updated their BIOS and the problem was corrected.<br clear="none"><div><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div> </div><div>------------------------<br clear="none">Keith Smith</div><div class="yiv8813521167yahoo_quoted" style="display:block;"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande,
sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div class="yiv8813521167yqt8603958030" id="yiv8813521167yqt37718"><div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 3:15 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan@gmail.com> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div class="yiv8813521167y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8813521167"><div>
<font face="Comic Sans MS">I would be careful of the HP laptops if
you're going to put linux on them. You might remember from a few
months ago the trouble I had with my HP desktop running linux. It
liked to lock up at random, sometimes within 20 minutes of booting
up, sometimes it might last a day or two. Recently my sister
asked me to put linux on her HP laptop. I did and it had the same
locking up at random issue.<br clear="none">
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<div dir="ltr">I have to say i have liked the internal design of
the last two generations. Easy to work on and keep cleaned out.
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<div>well on the latitudes specifically, the inspirons were a
PITA to work on.</div>
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<div class="yiv8813521167gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 8:59 AM, keith
smith <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:klsmith2020@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:klsmith2020@yahoo.com">klsmith2020@yahoo.com</a>></span>
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<span title="plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">Hi,</span></div>
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<span title="plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">I'm
seeing some decent pricing on laptops for tomorrow
night / Friday morning.</span></div>
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<span title="plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">I have
several HP's and find them to be decent laptops. I
use Dell for my desktop computers and have really
enjoyed their products. <br clear="none">
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at a Toshiba that is a decent build and has a really
good price. I owned a Toshiba about 12 years ago
and was not very impressed.</span></div>
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<span title="plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">I hear
there is only 4 manufactures of laptop components,
so I am wondering if the company that does the
assembly and puts their name on the finish product
is all that important.</span></div>
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<span title="plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">You
thoughts on this matter are very important to me.</span></div>
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<span title="plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">Thanks!</span></div>
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